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LATEST PUBLICATION (2017) – The completely revised Heritage Trail Guide to Thornbury – only £2 for a 28 page booklet packed with information about every stage on the Heritage Trail.

Discover all the things you never knew about Thornbury… More information here.

LATEST PUBLICATION FROM OLVESTON’S HISTORY SOCIETY:

In 2017, Olveston United Football Club won the Senior Amateur Cup Final of the Glos Football Association – a long way from some mates kicking an inflated sheep’s bladder around on a patch of rough grass in the mid-1920s. Local historian Eric Garrett recounts the history of the first 50 years of the Club in this new publication, which you can buy in the Museum Shop for just £6.

NEW RESEARCH ON HANDEL COSSHAM’S FAMILY & DESCENDANTS

This is the latest in a series of booklets researched and produced by Susan Dean:

Books on Local History

Browse our bookshop for books with a local significance:

See our latest Featured Publication at the bottom of the page

Learn about Thornbury Castle’s history

Find out what went on in the Thornbury Workhouse

Uncover the history of Daggs Allotments

Read about W.G.Grace’s cricket matches for and against Thornbury

Discover the history of Thornbury’s pubs

Browse old photos of Alveston and Thornbury in ‘Alveston Through Time’ and ‘Thornbury Through Time’

Read the stories of local people who worked in the aerospace industry

Find out who’s buried in Oldbury Churchyard

Learn about 19th and 20th century school life in Olveston and in Thornbury

Discover the history of opposition to slavery in South Gloucestershire

Check out the full list of local history books available in the museum bookshop.

Items for Children

Keep children and grandchildren busy….

Roman, Tudor and Victorian Activity Packs

Roman colouring posters

Roman, Medieval, Tudor & Victorian colouring cards

Key rings (Roman Soldier, Pterodactyl, Triceratops, Skeleton)

Model soldiers (boxed)

Centurion pencil sharpeners

Roman Gladiator Helmet pencil toppers and pencils

Roman History rulers

Quill pen

Other Items

Small packages of rocks and minerals (geodes, amethyst, rose quartz…)

Notelets and postcards

Historic Thornbury shopping bags

Historic Thornbury tea towels

Local historical maps

Featured Publications:

Published July 2015 – available in the Museum Shop:

THORNBURY THROUGH TIME – The Revised Edition

by museum researchers Tony Cherry and Meg Wise

Special Introductory Offer – £13.99

This revised edition of the “Thornbury Through Time” book, originally published in 2010, has been updated with approximately 40% new photos.

With over 180 photographs in total, the book traces some of the ways in which Thornbury has changed and developed over the last century.

The recently discovered Thornbury Quilt has added to our knowledge of Thornbury as it was at the beginning of the twentieth century and some of this information has been included in the revised edition.

Buy this book if you want to discover more about Thornbury Market and the town’s butchers, Thornbury architecture, Thornbury retailers through time, and the changing nature of Thornbury at work and Thornbury at play.